Teacher Resources
These resources can be used for projects in the classroom
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50 Digital Story Tools
Math Tools
Math tools for kids
http://mrbstechtools.weebly.com/multimedia--creation-tools.html
https://docs.google.com/a/tcboe.org/document/d/1sBIP0twPfldJ6AOFIkZy72RPfdj8wYm0RL_fsc9eoJE/mobilebasic?pli=1
http://answergarden.ch/
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=969840


Resources for Teachers

Art/Drawing
  • ArtSnacks For any teacher who wants to let kids draw while learning aligned curriculum concepts in science, writing and more.
  • Cooltext.com Free "Graphics Generator" to make logos and website buttons; fun fonts you can download.
  • Download Comic Life (download) Any teacher who is teaching writing concepts and wants to add a creative twist
  • digimi: Create avatars.
  • gliffy You can create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more.
  • goanimate You can create your own animated content for free. All you need is an account!
  • kerpoof create original artwork, animated movies, and stories (take the time to review how to use, some students had a problem with movies not saving)
  • sumopaint Online image editor
  • Tuxpaint Drawing program
  • TheHeroFactory Design superheroes for stories
  • //http://picfont.com///- create text on pictures

Audio/Sound/Music tools
  • audacity (tutorial) A tool for creating audio files that can be for local consumption or become podcasts
  • Gabcast A podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content.
  • imeeb Online music player
  • Impro-Visor Free music accompaniment software to improve improvising skills
  • itunes (download) Podcasts: (Any teacher who could use additional aligned curriculum resources in audio or video for their kids.)
  • Musescore Free music notation software
  • Pandora With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go.
  • Audioboo

Calendaring

Converting Tools
  • mediacoder Convert media to other formats.
  • any-video-converter: Convert video into any format.
  • any-audio-converter: Convert audio into any format.
  • mediaconverter Audio/Video Converter.
  • zamzar (Free online file conversion, turn that Youtube video into a video you can add to a powerpoint)
  • Real Player - free video downloader that also allows you to convert it to different file types; great for Flash video conversions!.

Math Resources and tools
  • DimensionM Online video games to learn math.
  • Google Sketchup Any teacher who wants to give kids a hands on experience while learning measurement, geometry concepts and creative design (download)
  • Math Lesson Creator Any teacher looking for a tool to create new math lessons
  • Math Snacks Any teacher who wants to let kids review key math concepts in a non-threatening way
  • Minyanland Game to help kids learn about money

Science/Geography
  • Celestia (free download) For any teacher who is teaching space science or the solar system and wants to engage kids
  • Stop Disasters Disaster simulation game

Writing and History resources and tools
  • ePals (For teachers who want to encourage reading and writing while connecting their kids to kids around the world)
  • Intel Teach to the Future tools (Ranking items and provide reasoning to why, investigate relationships by comparing/contrasting, develop well reasoned arguments.)
  • noodletools The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian bibliography composer with fully-integrated note-taking.
  • bibme.org
  • protopage.com free news reader and start page- really easy!
  • Story Chasers (A multi-state (and potentially multi-national) educational collaborative empowering students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local, regional and global interest as citizen journalists.
  • Story Creator Any teacher who is looking for a creative way to inspire reluctant writers to create narratives
  • Visuwords (online graphical dictionary)
  • Newsmap.jp Presents "treemaps" in realtime of most popular news headlines using an algorithm. Can view treemaps by country.

E-mail sites
  • Gaggle Free filtered email for students and teachers
  • GMail- Free email from Google
  • Yahoo- Free email from Yahoo

Photos

Surveys/Polls

Video

Screen Capture
  • screencast-o-matic Screen capture that is web based. Can record longer than 30 minutes.
  • Jing Still and moving screen capture. Instant e-mail, web and IM share.
  • Screenr Create instant screencasts. Uses twitter login
  • Screen Castle

Presentation
  • Prezi Zooming presentations. Blocked for students?
  • Glogsterforeducation - Online collage maker suitable for any subject. Art tools, graphics, pictures, video and audio can be inserted. Innovative, collaborative, sharing-ability. Log in to use. Also premium membership available.
  • vuvox Allows you to create interactive slideshows and presentations from photos, video and music from many sites
  • Alice Computer programming in a 3D environment
  • bubbl.us Free and simple web application that lets you brainstorm online
  • classtools.net Free, customizable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites.
  • etherpad.com free page for group editing simultaneously
  • Go2Web20 Web application index, you can watch for new tools here
  • NVU Web design software. Free.
  • Open Options Open Source and web base resources for teachers
  • Webnotes Annotate the web.
  • Weebly Create a free website & blog with an easy drag and drop interface
  • Zoho Notebook You can create content of type text, image, audio, video and embed content of any type from multiple applications.
  • Tiny URL Can copy and paste your long, assigned URL from a blog, wiki, or website and get a tiny, easy-to-type one instead. Blocked for students, but staff can override filter.
  • Voki allows you to create a personalized speaking avatars
  • Wordle A toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
  • Annotate Online document review.
  • authorGen
  • authorstream Share slides and presentations.
  • drop.io Use drop.io to privately share and collaborate in real time be web, email, phone, mobile and more.
  • elluminate Learn Central offers a FREE vRoom for up to 3 people to meet online; great for sharing, planning or just collaborating; and can have a group of people in one school meet and share with 2 other groups in another school by just using the internet, a computer, projector and screen
  • slideshare Share Powerpoints
  • Skype Any educator who wants to collaborate or let their students collaborate with authors, experts or other teachers and students in remote locations.
  • wiggio Makes working in groups easy. Organize your groups and create and manage chats with the group.
  • TeamTreks Teamwork adventure. $10/student/yr
  • Voicethread Create collaborative projects in which people can add voice comments to posted video, audio, pics, docs, etc.
  • yackpack Connect with groups by yacking over the Internet with the cloud technology
  • mindmeister Mindmapping and brainstorming. Like Inspiration, but free and you can work simultaneously with others in real time, too.
  • MyWebspiration Like Inspiration, but free and you can work simultaneously with others in real time, too.
  • wallwisher Online notice board maker - make post-its, drag and drop to organize, post announcements, etc. Blocked for students.
  • **Site with great list of mindmapping tools** - this site lists 15 concept maps, mindmapping and graphic organizer tools. Way cool! Check out the comments for more!
  • //http://museumbox.e2bn.org///

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